The Articulate Autistic
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The Articulate Autistic
@articulateautistic.bsky.social
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Autistic Communication Translator/Author of “Before You Fire Them” - Out Now|Pissed-off Liberal 💙
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As someone who has acid reflux so bad, it landed me in the hospital, I empathize
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Because neurodivergent people are so literal and honest, we get mislabeled as rude, sassy, or smart-mouthed when we’re actually just being exact.
It is an autistic thing. When two autistic people talk to each other, they talk over and around each other but understand the conversation. NT people need to take turns, or it’s confusing and disorienting to them. They also use subtle social cues we autistics don’t always pick up on
Thank you for accepting her as she is 😊
She shouldn’t be beaten up because she’s a human being, but people seem to forget about that in the neurology discourse 🤦‍♀️ (not you, them)
With puns like that, we love you, too haha 😉
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It is important for us to reduce the symptoms of autistic trauma, but if we try to do that in a space where connection and acceptance is systematically denied from us, we will have an intensely painful experience of rejection.
Autistic Traits vs Autistic Trauma — Trauma Geek
Healing developmental trauma does not make an autistic person more typical. Trauma interventions can increase an autistic person's atypical behaviors as they re-connect with their genetically divergen...
www.traumageek.com
Oof!
Autistic people shouldn’t be pressured or expected to just ‘bounce back’ from burnout 👌🏽
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being an autistic teenager meant that I was the opposite of most teenagers:

♾️ instead of rebellious, I was cautious and scared of everything

♾️ I couldn't go to parties or use a bus by myself

♾️ I wanted to be alone in my bedroom, not socialising
What would I be like as human being instead of just a human doing?

#ActuallyAutistic #Burnout #Contemplation
Yes! I couldn’t have put it better myself. It feels so fake, almost rude!